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Egyptian Culture
Mesopotamian Culture
Impacts
Geography
Leaders
100
Pyramids were constructed by the pharaoh to be a...
What is a tomb
100

These people performed religious ceremonies and had great status in Sumer. 

What are priests

100

The Egyptians created many materials from the Nile including..

What are papyrus, pottery, bricks, etc.

100

Floods and droughts required citizens to build a system of levees and dams commonly referred to as

What is irrigation

100

The son of the sun god Ra

What is the pharaoh

200
A form of writing using pictures for sounds and words
What is hieroglyphics
200

The first people to build city-states in Mesopotamia were

What are the Sumerians

200

In many societies there are classes of people. Sumerians also had these classes.

What are slaves; workers, merchants, farmers; scribes, craftmen; officials, priests; emporers/pharoahs

200
The nickname given to Mesopotamia
What is the fertile crescent
200

This person is the spiritual leader of Egypt

What is the pharaoh

300
The Egyptians used this method for buying and selling goods
What is trading
300

The Law of the land in Mesopotamia was

What is Hammurabi's code

300

The Egyptians inspired a series of lines representing numbers that look similar to what type of numerals

What are Roman numerals

300
These two rivers formed around the fertile crescent, flooding over the plains to deposit good soil.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates
300

This person was the first ruler to have a premanent army and established the world's first empire

What is Sargon

400
Removing the brain and other organs to prepare someone for the afterlife
What is mummification
400

This form of writing used wedge-shaped streaks

What is cuneiform

400

There are two buildings from these cultures that share similar shapes, they are

What are ziggurats and pyramids

400

The Nile river flowed through Egypt and was considered to be tamed in these two ways.

What are strengthening the riverbanks and creating irrigation systems

400

This pharaoh defeated both the Hittites and the Tehenu

What is Rramses the Great

500
The Egyptian religion had a large impact on what other societies
What are the Greeks and Romans
500
These people were the children of the rich and learned to read and write becoming record keepers and writing their own literature
What are scribes
500

Writing was important to both cultures. The two writing styles were...

What are hieroglyphics and cuneiform

500
The biggest similarity between the Egyptians' and Mesopotamians' geography
What is the use of irrigation and flooding rivers.
500

This lady is one of the most successful female pharaohs

What is Hatshepsut